It’s no secret that in-store Standard has been on the decline over the past few years. Magic has a continued emphasis on digital play, releasing digital-exclusive products and formats alongside their onslaught of paper releases each year.
Read morevs at the | Illustrations by Alex Konstad, Daarken, & Craig J Spearingom, respectively Today I’ve got some exciting news for you: Draftsim is part of a Magic data study that’s being presented this week at the IEEE Conference on...
Read more| Illustration by Randy Vargas Draftsim has long catered to the nerdier side of Magic (yes that is a thing!) and I’ve always been quite proud of that fact. We’ve done this for years with various data analysis blog articles, including big studies...
Read moreYou gotta love it — right now is the most exciting time of year here at Draftsim. Strixhaven: School of Mages preview season is over and we’ve finally got our hands on the full spoiler. Draftsim even got three cards to preview this...
Read moreIn collaboration with Ryan Saxe and Bobby Mills No one: ……….. Us: Yes, of course we can build you something to predict how many wins your draft deck is going to get! As far as I know, this is the first time anyone has ever...
Read moreHere we are on the brink of Kaldheim’s release, and it’s been four months since we’ve had a new draft format. I don’t know about you, but I am starved. What better way is there to whet your appetite than to talk about...
Read moreLooking for some direction early on in this Theros Beyond Death draft format? We’ve got some card rankings to help you out. These lists are generated by a machine learning algorithm created by Ryan Saxe based on around 100,000 of your...
Read moreRyan Saxe analyzes over 80,000 Draftsim drafts and creates a drafting bot that both understands archetypes and knows how to stay open during a draft.
Read moreBy Dan Troha and Arseny Khakhalin I think it’s safe to say that everyone had pretty similar expectations about Ravnica Allegiance going into its release — it would look very similar to Guilds of Ravnica for limited. After all, there...
Read moreBy Arseny Khakhalin, Dan Troha, and Bobby Mills Believe it or not, we’re already four weeks deep into the Guilds of Ravnica draft environment! We’ve had a couple of Grand Prix tournaments, tons of drafting on Arena and Magic Online, and of course...
Read moreBy Dan Troha, Arseny Khakhalin, and Bobby Mills As we finally say goodbye to M19 and welcome in Guilds of Ravnica (appearing on Draftsim this Wednesday), our team at Draftsim wanted to take a final look at Magic Core 2019 to see what we can learn...
Read moreHi! I’m Dan, and I run Draftsim, a website that helps people practice by drafting in a simulated environment against seven “bots” programmed with artificial intelligence. Along with some key collaborators, I’ve been working on a big project this...
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